Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
So GUWonder, what you are saying is essentially this...:
If someone is granted a multi-entry Schengen visa for a year... then any trips they make during that year have to involve the country that originally issued the visa?
That is not what I am saying; nor is that what the Swiss are saying. What the various Schengen authorities say and what the Swiss say too as part of Schengen would be more akin to the following:
For the Norwegian-issued Schengen visa to be more certainly valid and non-problematic for use in the Schengen Zone, one of the conditions that has to be met is that the visa has been or will be used with Norway as either the first port of entry into the Schengen Zone or as a primary destination on the trip when the visa is first used; thereafter, it can be used for various other trips too as long as the conditions for the visa are not violated.
It's a holiday here, so my rolodex isn't going to be used today beyond what I did already today to ask the relevant officials more about this until Monday. That said, I'm pretty sure that I've got this thing down correctly and that the Swiss aren't off on this matter.
From public material online from governments, there are things such as this:
If you intend to travel in more than one country in the Schengen area, you must apply for a Schengen visa at the mission of the Schengen country where you intend to stay longest. If you intend to stay in each Schengen country for the same length of time, you must apply for a Schengen visa at the mission of the first Schengen country you intend to visit.
http://www.government.nl/issues/visa...-schengen-visa